South Padre’s beautiful resort is a great place if you and your family members enjoy having endless variety at your fingertips. There is a sandbox, and a playground for the kids, a recreation room with ping pong, darts and games for the teens and even a playground for the family dog. This resort is also five minutes away from the beach, parasailing and dolphin watching, and the site has a basketball court and “bay fishing” off a long pier on the Laguna Madre bay

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Madre_(United_States) – The Laguna Madre is a long, shallow, hypersaline lagoon along the western coast of the Gulf of Mexico in South Texas and is the length of Padre Island. The lagoon’s ecosystem is protected by the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge and the Padre Island National Seashore, as well as the privately owned King Ranch.